Before becoming an association, AFEI started as the US CALS (DOD) Industry Steering Group in 1985.
This organization was formed at the request of OSD and designed to advise DoD on the selection of commercial standards for data exchange among dissimilar systems.
The AFEI mission is to lead government agencies, industry and academia to strengthen global enterprise integration technology, processes and solutions.
AFEI advances enterprise integration, network centric operations and world E-commerce, through a series of workshops, symposia, exhibits and working groups.
AFEI is a conduit for DoD policy and strategy input from industry through jointly chartered working groups.